EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 297, 5 September 1855, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

We take the following particulars respecting tbe attack of the Russians on the trenches of the allies before the "Mamelon''from tbe "Record" of April 9. "The Russians first fell, with a force of fifteen battajions of 1,000 men each, moving in two columns, upon the head of the sap which the French are driving forward on the right of tbe Mamelon. The attack was made with fierce shouts and extreme fury, and General Canrobert states that the enemy were thrice driven back by the 3rd Zouaves. The Russians, however, succeeded at last' in forcing a passage on the left of the French parallel, which they turned ; they then passed along the parallel till they came io the British right, where it is connected with the French works. Detachments of the 77th and 97th Regiments (British) occupied this position, and, though taken for the moment both in flank and rear, the gallant fellows ofthe 97th repulsed the attack at the point of the bayonet, in which service Captain Vicars, who behaved with distinguished bravery,was unhappily killed. While this combat was going on upon the right, the enemy also succeeded in penetrating to our second parallel on the left,called the Green Hill attack, and they likewise reached our mortar battery on the left front of our right attack. Fortunately, Lieutenant Colonel Tylden, ofthe Engineers, succeeded in bringing up with great promptitude detachment of those fine regiments, the 7th Fosileers and the 34th, which had been at work hard by, and these troops advanced with so much steadinesss and resolution that the Russians were ejected, and fairly pitched over the parapet, with but little firing on our part. The loss of these regiments was about twenty men killed tnd wounded; but it is feared that Lieutenant Colonel Kelly, of the 34th, whom Lord Raglan only reports as missing, was in fact killed, and Capt.Browne, a son of Lord Kilmaine, was mortally wounded. Meanwhile, the French, who had retired on their reserves, rallied with great energy, fell upon the enemy, and drove them back so far towards the Mamelon that they were enabled to level and destroy nearly all the ambuscades or rifle pits. It is to this part of the engagement that General Canrohert's telegraphic despatch more "particularly referred, and, although great numbers "of lives were sacrificed on both sides, the result of this struggle seems to be that the relative position of botb armies is precisely what it was before. This attack, however, was one of unusual magnitude and importance. The Russian Generals had brought eight battalions of fresh troops into the town expressly to make it, and they evidently hoped to destroy the approaches directed against the Malakoff Tower. In this attempt they utterly failed, and the loss they sustained was undoubtedly very great."